The move comes as Kalshi’s trading volume pulls ahead of Polymarket, largely due to its sports betting offerings.
Republic Europe unveiled a new Kraken SPV to give retail investors indirect access to the crypto exchange as it eyes an IPO.
The crypto exchange is in talks with overseas crypto exchanges and local financial institutions for the sale, local media reported.
Decentralized social protocols Farcaster and Lens have changed hands, and the debate over crypto social's future is back.
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CertiK co-founder Ronghui Gu said the cybersecurity firm is exploring paths to go public in an interview this week in Davos, Switzerland.
The company behind Farcaster plans to return the full $180 million it raised from venture capital investors, co-founder Dan Romero said.
The French hardware wallet maker has engaged investment banks to explore a US initial public offering, the Financial Times reported.
YZi Labs did not disclose the size of the investment but said it is a strategic institutional investor in BitGo.
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USD.AI primarily operates as an onchain bank for AI startups, accepting tokenized GPUs as collateral for stablecoin loans.
Chainlink and Atlas will offer a loan liquidation auction tool for "non-toxic" MEV that pays both backrunning bots and protocols.
The firm plans to use the fresh capital to scale beyond tokenized Treasury products into onchain equity issuance on Ethereum and Solana.
Nomura's Laser Digital launched a tokenized Bitcoin Diversified Yield Fund on Jan. 22, targeting around 5% returns.
Sun's investment coincided with a sharp rally in the RIVER token and heightened scrutiny over leverage-driven trading activity.
BitGo priced its US IPO at $18 per share, above its previously marketed range of $15 to $17, with trading set to begin Jan. 22.
Strive, Inc. raised about $160 million in a November offering of a new dividend-bearing Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock.
Decentralized social media infrastructure firm Neynar is acquiring Farcaster, the Ethereum-based protocol last valued at $1 billion.
Cork is building a "programmable risk layer" to make the implicit risks in real-world assets transparent and tradable through tokenization.
Bitpanda will add stock and ETF trading on Jan. 29, expanding its regulated app beyond crypto into multi-asset investing.
Grayscale filed an S-1 with the SEC to convert its NEAR Trust into a spot ETF, marking the second U.S. NEAR ETF application.
Galaxy plans a $100 million hedge fund launching in Q1, allocating capital across crypto and financial services equities, the FT reported.
Market onlookers have long speculated that Anchorage, the first federally chartered digital asset bank, was considering going public.
Wood removed bitcoin from his model portfolio, reallocating the 10% stake into gold and gold-mining stocks amid quantum computing concerns.
Ripple will provide $150 million in financing as LMAX Group integrates RLUSD as collateral across its institutional trading venues.
Anchorage tapped Spark to unlock onchain credit markets for its institutional clients who want to keep their assets in off-chain custody.
The $200 million in MrBeast’s Beast Industries ties the largest U.S.-listed Ethereum treasury to a global YouTube and creator economy.
Galaxy Digital closed a $75 million tokenized CLO on Avalanche to finance Arch Lending’s crypto-backed lending facility.
LSEG launched its Digital Settlement House enabling 24/7 settlement of tokenized commercial bank deposits across currencies and networks.
The expected increase is likely to be supported by additional crypto regulation, including the passage of the Clarity Act in the U.S.